Pre Travel Health Care

Travel Medicine/Travel Clinics are devoted to the maintenance of the health of international travelers throughhealth promotionanddisease prevention. Prevention advice/care is dependent upon:

Travel health risk assessment/consultation. This encompasses the traveler’s itinerary, planned activities, duration of travel, their health immunization history and the epidemiology (prevalence and determinants) of disease at the destination.

QTHC providescomprehensive pre-travel care:

Professional and knowledgeable risk assessment, risk communication and risk management.

Availability of a complete panel of immunizations against all vaccine preventable illnesses.

Provision of an appropriate recommendations and prescriptions according to risk for self-treatment/prevention of traveler’s diarrhea, malaria and environmental illness (eg altitude sickness).

The focus of the QTHC is on pre-travel care/prevention and health promotions. QTHC will be available to support/consult with primary care health providers in post travel illness/health situations. These post travel "cases" can be complex and require tropical medicine specialists/clinics and specific testing evaluations.